In the following review, Turan claims that what is most impressive about the film Minority Report stems from Dick's short story “The Minority Report.”

It took paranoid visionary Philip K. Dick to do what Stanley Kubrick could not: Get Steven Spielberg to fully cross over to the dark side. The question now is, how happy are we to have him there?

Spielberg's Minority Report is amplified from a Dick short story [“The Minority Report”] by writers Scott Frank and Jon Cohen, and it stars Tom Cruise as a man hunted by the futuristic anti-crime unit he once led. It finds Hollywood's preeminent director more convincingly at home with unapologetically bleak and unsettling material than he was with Kubrick's A.I. “I...